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Ok, I'll bite. How would you do that? How do they stay connected and powered?
Solar panels, probably.
Just another reason to preference walking and cycling.
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I start to think that in an ordinary human lifetime it is more likely than not to experience disaster. If you were born in 1945 and are still alive today, you may have picked the most lucky period to have lived through of all possible. I am not concvinced the next 75 years will be as peaceful as the past 75.
I'm not sure how true that is. I think it's dependent on location really or country for conflicts. Some places have seen a lot of violence. Violent crime rates were pretty high in some areas too.
Just another reason to preference walking and cycling.
A bike is a great mode of transportation when you don't need to carry anything heavy, bulky, passengers etc. and when weather permits. It's not a replacement for a vehicle, nor will it ever be.
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I know Philadelphia has a network of publicly accessible traffic cameras that were installed by the city. I assume other places have them too.
I thought those kind of networks were pretty common - here is Scotland's: https://trafficscotland.org/map/index.aspx?type=26
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Narrow thinking. Cargo bikes come in a variety of shapes and sizes to carry children, adults, parcels, moving boxes, and more. As for the weather... well, as we say in Denmark: there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.
as we say in Denmark: there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing. That's easy to say in Denmark, since the weather is virtually always pretty OK. It basically never gets below -10 or above +35. Without looking at the data I would guess 300ish days a year are between 5 and 25.
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as we say in Denmark: there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing. That's easy to say in Denmark, since the weather is virtually always pretty OK. It basically never gets below -10 or above +35. Without looking at the data I would guess 300ish days a year are between 5 and 25.
We use that expression in Iceland too
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I will place and maintain road cameras for $50/yr, including data connectivity for plates. Minimum 1,000 cameras. 75% uptime/scan rate guarantee.
Why do you think any city in any Western country will allow you to pepper public property with thousands of surveillance devices?
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> Several cities in the US were firebombed nightly for months in 2020. What? What is this referring to?
From the general tone of the rest of the comment, it's likely they're referring to actions taken adjacent to the Black Lives Matter protests which were depicted in some news media as being like a war zone. Oddly, none of the cities today look like, I don't know, Ukraine. But some people will make mountains from molehills.